Much is talked about in terms of mining data. Most enterprises, however, 'write once, read never'. How do you make research data available across your organisation at a local level and even move beyond that to a global level?

The idea of virtualizing a function and then separating its management functions and them putting them under programmatic control has gotten quite a bit of attention in the market over the last year. We've heard about software defined networks, storage, and even whole data centers. Is support of only x86-based systems and their workloads enough?